SELMA, September 25, 1864.

General J. B. HOOD:

Your telegram of yesterday received. None have crossed and no effort is being made to cross any at this time.

R. TAYLOR,

Lieutenant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF TENN. AND Georgia, Numbers 4.
In the Field, September 25, 1864.

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II. In obedience to orders from the War Department, Major General Arnold Elzey, Provisional Army, C. S., is assigned to duty as chief of artillery of the Army of Tennessee. He will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

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By command of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS LEE'S CORPS,

September 25, 1864.

GENERAL: The lieutenant-general commanding directs me to inform you that the President will ride around the lines to-morrow, commencing on the right, and that he wishes you to have your DIVISION drawn up in line of battle along the road in rear of the breast-works at 9. 30 a. m. Let the men stack arms, and rest, till notice is given that the President is approaching.

The artillery will be drawn up on your line at once at some convenient point. Any further instructions which may be necessary will be given on the field.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. RATCHFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(To DIVISION commanders.)

PALMETTO, September 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General IVERSON, Commanding Cavalry, Right Wing:

General Hood directs me to inform you that he has ordered Brigadier-General Lewis' brigade (lately mounted) to report to you for duty. This has been done to strengthen your force, and also that scouting parties may be sent from this brigade to operate against the enemy's foraging parties, so as to give the men a chance to mount themselves.

[A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.]

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ALA., MISS., AND EAST LA.,
Selma, September 25, 1864.

Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richmond:

SIR: I have the honor to report the removal of the headquarters

of this department to Selma for the time being. Immediately on my arrival at Meridian from the Trans-MISSISSIPPI Department, perceiving